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Merton

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Mer·ton  (mûrtn), Robert King 1910-2003.
American sociologist who proposed that deviant behavior results when a society offers no acceptable means of achieving acceptable goals.
Merton, Thomas 1915-1968.
American Trappist monk and writer of works on contemporary spiritual and secular life, including The Seven Story Mountain (1948) and No Man Is an Island (1955).
Merton [ˈmɜːtən]
n
(Placename) a borough in SW Greater London. Pop.: 187 908 (2001). Area: 38 sq. km (15 sq. miles)
Merton2
n
(Biographies / Merton, Thomas (Feverel) (1915-1968) M, US, WRITING: writer, RELIGION: monk, RELIGION: mystic) Thomas (Feverel). 1915-68, US writer, monk, and mystic; noted esp for his autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain (1948)
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Noun1.Merton - United States religious and writer (1915-1968)
Thomas Merton
2.Merton - United States sociologist (1910-2003)
Robert King Merton, Robert Merton


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Merton candidly, "there is no sense to be made of it at all.
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Merton did; and I was thinking perhaps papa had got one down there, and it kind of frightened me.
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There was a boy at our school, we used to call him Sandford and Merton.
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